[Az-Geocaching] Garmin Colorado 400t

[moosemob at cox.net]

If you turn off the electronic compass, the arrow will point the wrong 
way about 3% of the time instead of 30% of the time.  You will also see 
you battery life extend by 2-3 times.  A set of rechargeables last me 
about 7-10 hours with no compass and minimal backlighting.

I love the 2000 cache capability with full cache pages.   When I was 
using my 60csx, I would tend to leave my PDA in the car, or worse.. not 
updated with current data or left at home.

I have not played with the picture viewer yet.

I load my found/owned caches in as POI's so I have that info if needed.

The screen is AWESOME compared to any other GPS I have used.  Of course, 
I hear the DeLorme PN-40 is a front runner in that arena.

It has it's nuances.
The arrow has been known to point 180 out on occasion, when it does, 
just use the numbers to get close to the cache.  If you walk a straight 
line for 30-50 feet it will eventually fix itself.  This problem 
typically only happens when you are under 100 feet.

The file system takes a bit to get used to, but doable.

I hope this helps.


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:14 AM , Shari Guida wrote:

> Are we the last team using a Geko 201? LOL
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> From: TeamShack <TeamShack at comcast.net>
> To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:32:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Garmin Colorado 400t
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>  I purchased my 400T back in November and LOVE it.  In comparison
> to other models, the interface took a little getting used to.  One of 
> the best
> features on it as far as I am concerned is the ability to customize 
> the user
> profile to have everything that you normally use, right at your 
> fingertips
> rather than hunting through endless menus.  I find it to be very 
> accurate
> very quick and was surprised when I was able to get good accuracy from 
> inside
> the house.
>  The paperless geocaching  aspects are fantastic.  When
> uploading a GPX file you get the description, hint and latest logs. 
> While
> you can enter field notes into the unit, I find it too time consuming 
> to turn
> the little wheel to find each character.  It still records the time 
> and
> date of the log entry to make it easy to update online when you get 
> home. When traveling you can download the field notes onto a laptop 
> and then edit
> them using the text mode of just about any word processing program. 
> Uploading and posting logs is a breeze.
>  I have noticed some slowing of the unit when I have more than
> 2000 caches loaded even on the SD card.  I don’t need to have all
> those loaded all at once and have found 1000 a happy medium.  If I’m
> traveling, I have a couple of extra SD cards that I load up with 
> additional cache
> databases for the particular city.
>  The only con that I have with it is that battery life is very
> poor.  I have solved this by purchasing 4 sets of rechargeable lithium 
> ion’s. One option that would be very beneficial is if it would 
> recharge batteries
> while plugged into the automotive power cord.
>  That’s my $385 worth…..  GREAT unit that is
> hard on batteries!
>  Scott of TeamShack
>  From:az-geocaching-bounces at listserv.azgeocaching.com
> [mailto:az-geocaching-bounces at listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of 
> WEBOWITZ at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:08 PM
> To: az-geocaching at listserv.azgeocaching.com
> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Garmin Colorado 400t
>  I am wondering if anyone uses the Garmin Colorado 400T and if so,
> pros?? cons??
> Thanks,
> DR Webe
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